Abstract: A gas turbine configured to prevent eccentricity of a rotor (14) due to heat is installed with a strut (23), an outer diffuser (24), an inner diffuser (25), a strut cover (26), and a partition wall (28), wherein the gas turbine includes an inflow hole (31) for cooling air (W), a first flow passage (R1) formed between a casing wall (21) and the outer diffuser (24), a second flow passage (R2) formed between the strut (23) and the strut cover (26), a third flow passage (R3) formed between the inner diffuser (25) and the partition wall (28), and an outflow hole (51) installed in the inner diffuser (25).

Abstract: A cover for a cooling passage is disclosed forming a cooling passage for supplying cooling air to a turbine rotor blade at the last stage via inside of a disk of a turbine, and the cover includes a cylindrical cover portion that covers a cavity provided in a annular pattern in an outer circumference of the disk in a mode where a first passage opened from inside of the disk to the cavity and a second passage opened from a cooling passage of the turbine rotor blade at the last stage to the cavity are connected to each other; and a flexible portion that is formed integrally with the cover portion and allows flexure in an axial direction of the turbine.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of easily improving the detection accuracy of a touching or proximity object is provided. An offset noise (a reset image R) is obtained by an image pickup process in a state (a reset state) in which an image pickup device is initialized. Moreover, a fingertip extraction process is performed in consideration of the offset noise on the basis of a picked-up image (a shadow image A or a display light-using image B) which is obtained by picking up an image of a proximity object to obtain object information about the proximity object. While an offset noise in the apparatus is easily reduced, object information about the proximity object can be obtained.

Abstract: A structure for a gas turbine casing, capable of preventing gas from leaking when the structure is subjected to pressure. A structure for a gas turbine casing, divided by a horizontal plane at flange sections into two halves comprising an upper-half casing (10) and a lower-half casing (11). The structure is provided with bolts (12) which are disposed in the inner surfaces of the upper-half casing (10) and the lower-half casing (11) so as to bridge therebetween, upper nuts (13) which are disposed in the inner surface of the upper-half casing (10) and attached to the bolts (12), and lower nuts (14) which are disposed in the inner surface of the lower-half casing (11) and attached to the bolts (12).

Abstract: A display-and-image-pickup apparatus includes: a display-and-image-pickup panel having an image display function and an image pickup function; an image producing means for producing a predetermined processed image on the basis of a picked-up image of a proximity object obtained through the use of the display-and-image-pickup panel; an image processing means for obtaining information about the proximity object through selectively using one of two obtaining modes on the basis of at least one of the picked-up image and the processed image; and a switching means for switching processes so that, in the case where the parameter is increasing, one of the two obtaining modes is switched to the other obtaining mode when the parameter reaches a threshold value, and in the case where the parameter is decreasing, the other obtaining mode is switched to the one obtaining mode when the parameter reaches a smaller threshold value.

Abstract: A gas turbine includes a shaft directional passage provided to a rotating member that rotates along a central axis of a rotor, which is a rotating axis of the rotating member, about the central axis, or a rotating axis of the rotating member, and in which cooling air flows along a direction of the rotating axis of the rotor, a plurality of radial directional passages provided in a circumferential direction of the rotating member, and compressing the cooling air by being provided outwardly from the center of the rotor, in which one end of each of the radial directional passages is communicated with the shaft directional passage and the other end is communicated with exterior of the rotating member.

Abstract: The present invention includes an introducing passage that is provided within a turbine stationary blade fixed within a turbine casing and that communicates an interior of the turbine casing with an exterior thereof; a nozzle that is provided in an inner circumference of the turbine stationary blade in a manner that the nozzle communicates with the introducing passage and that includes an outlet facing the opening of the rotor cavity and a swirler at the outlet; and a pressurizing passage that communicates a cooling passage with a rotor cavity. In this arrangement, the outlet of the nozzle and the connecting opening of the pressurizing passage are arranged so that distances of the outlet and of the connecting opening from the central axis line in the radial direction of the rotor are the same distance r.

Abstract: There is provided an automotive interior component including an impact absorber mounted to an interior side of a side wall panel of a vehicle, and the shape and structure of the impact absorber that can undergo buckling deformation and absorb an impact load in a side collision are improved to increase an impact absorbing function. The impact absorber 30 mounted on a back surface of an impact area IA in the automotive interior component (door trim) 10 is formed as a hollow box body having an opening 31 on one side and a bottom surface wall 32 on the other side, and improvement such as providing corner cut portions 34 at four corner portions of the bottom surface wall 32, forming a chamfered portion 333 at a corner portion of a side wall 33, or forming a cam groove portion 334, a triangular rib 36, or an inner surface rib 321 is made to adjust a reaction force in a side collision to increase an impact absorbing function.

Abstract: To provide a cover of a cooling passage that forms a cooling passage for supplying cooling air to a turbine rotor blade at the last stage via inside of a disk of a turbine, and the cover comprises: a cylindrical cover portion that covers a cavity provided in a annular pattern in an outer circumference of the disk in a mode where a first passage opened from inside of the disk to the cavity and a second passage opened from a cooling passage of the turbine rotor blade at the last stage to the cavity are connected to each other; and a flexible portion that is formed integrally with the cover portion and allows flexure in an axial direction of the turbine.

Abstract: A gas turbine including exhaust chamber defined by a cylindrical casing wall and a bearing case that supports a bearing part of a rotor in the casing wall, struts provided at equal intervals in circumferential direction of the bearing case and extending in tangential direction of the bearing case to couple the casing wall and the bearing case, a diffuser unit having an outer diffuser at the inner periphery of the casing wall and an inner diffuser at the outer periphery of the bearing case, a cooling chamber in which the outer diffuser and the inner diffuser are coupled by a strut cover, led to a portion between the casing wall and the outer diffuser, a portion between the bearing case and the inner diffuser, and the insides of the strut cover, and a partition wall that covers the outer periphery of the bearing case.

Abstract: A gas turbine includes a gas turbine body in which a rotor is rotated with the energy of combustion gas produced by combustion of fuel to take out rotational energy from the rotor, an inlet casing that is attached to the gas turbine body and that guides the air to a compressor section compressing the air, an air intake chamber that is connected to the inlet casing and that guides the air taken in from the atmosphere to the gas turbine body, and a notch so formed in the air intake chamber as to cover the entire range where the rotor passes or exists when the rotor is moved.

Abstract: In a gas turbine, an exhaust casing (27) and an exhaust chamber (14) are connected by an exhaust chamber support (32) that can absorb thermal expansion, and the exhaust chamber (14) and an exhaust duct (31) are connected by an exhaust duct support (33) that can absorb thermal expansion. An insulator (63) is mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the exhaust chamber (14), and the exhaust chamber support (32) and the exhaust duct support (33) are disposed outside the insulator (63) in the form of a plurality of strips. Because the thermal stress at a connection portion of the exhaust chamber is reduced, the durability is enhanced.

Abstract: A gas turbine includes a disk rotatable about a rotational axis, when turbine rotor blades for receiving combustion gas obtained by burning fuel are connected to the side periphery, and energy of the combustion gas received by the turbine rotor blades is transmitted, and a radial passage that, in a cross-section at a virtual curved plane that is a curved plane about the rotational axis and in which distances from all points on the curved plane to the rotational axis are all equal, is a hole formed to include a portion having a shape in which the length in the circumferential direction of the disk is longer than the length in the direction parallel to the rotational axis, and is formed in the disk from the side of the rotational axis toward the outside of the disk.

Abstract: To include a cooling passage leading from a latter stage of a compressor, via an external cooler, to a hollow part provided in a load coupling that couples a rotor of the compressor and a rotor of a turbine to each other, and also leading from the hollow part to the latter stage of the compressor, and a centrifugal compressor that raises air pressure in the hollow part with rotation of the load coupling, in the hollow part. Therefore, pressure of the air in the hollow part is raised by the centrifugal compressor by using a centrifugal force resulting from the rotation of the load coupling at the time of operating the gas turbine. Cooled air flows from the hollow part to between compressor rotor blades and compressor vanes at the latter stage, and then flows into the hollow part, thereby enabling to efficiently reduce temperature in the hollow part.

Abstract: An information delivery system in which in a display device (2) for displaying a first content and a second content, a user's operation to the display device is analyzed when the user views the first content and when the operation is performed to change the first content, the second content is delivered from an information delivery device (1) that receives a delivery request to the display device and displayed. Therefore, the desired second content is provided without interrupting a user's viewing and hearing of the first content.

Abstract: In a turbine disk and a gas turbine, the turbine disk is firmly connected to a rotor (24) to be rotatably supported; a plurality of rotor blades (22a) is arranged on an outer circumference thereof in a circumferential direction; first cooling holes (42) penetrating the turbine disk from inside toward outside thereof and being communicatively connected to a cooling passage (41) arranged inside of the rotor blades (22a) are arranged in the circumferential direction; second cooling holes (43) arranged between each of the first cooling holes (42) and penetrating the turbine disk from the inside toward the outside thereof are provided; and the first cooling holes (42) and the second cooling holes (43) are communicatively connected by way of a radial direction communicating channel (47), to alleviate concentration of stress and to improve durability.

Abstract: An information delivery system in which in a display device (2) for displaying a first content and a second content, it is detected whether or not the displayed first content is changed to other content that is different from the first content and when the change is the predetermined change that is set in advance, the second content is delivered from an information delivery device (1) that receives a delivery request to the display device and displayed. Therefore, the desired second content is provided without interrupting a user's viewing of the first content.

Abstract: There is provided an automotive interior component including an impact absorber mounted to an interior side of a side wall panel of a vehicle, and the shape and structure of the impact absorber that can undergo buckling deformation and absorb an impact load in a side collision are improved to increase an impact absorbing function. The impact absorber 30 mounted on a back surface of an impact area IA in the automotive interior component (door trim) 10 is formed as a hollow box body having an opening 31 on one side and a bottom surface wall 32 on the other side, and improvement such as providing corner cut portions 34 at four corner portions of the bottom surface wall 32, forming a chamfered portion 333 at a corner portion of a side wall 33, or forming a cam groove portion 334, a triangular rib 36, or an inner surface rib 321 is made to adjust a reaction force in a side collision to increase an impact absorbing function.

Abstract: An information record apparatus includes: a down-convert device for down-converting a first content information having a first reproduction quality (HD) into a second content information having a second reproduction quality (SD) which is lower quality than the first reproduction quality; a scramble device for generating scramble information by scrambling the first content information, on the basis of a predetermined scramble key; and a first record device for recording the second content information and the scramble information into a first record medium.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of easily improving the detection accuracy of a touching or proximity object is provided. An offset noise (a reset image R) is obtained by an image pickup process in a state (a reset state) in which an image pickup device is initialized. Moreover, a fingertip extraction process is performed in consideration of the offset noise on the basis of a picked-up image (a shadow image A or a display light-using image B) which is obtained by picking up an image of a proximity object to obtain object information about the proximity object. While an offset noise in the apparatus is easily reduced, object information about the proximity object can be obtained.